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Reading defender Michael Morrison insists the side will quickly recover after losing for the second successive match at Middlesbrough on Saturday.

Royals were on the wrong end of a 1-0 scoreline due to Marvin Johnson's goal on the hour mark at the Riverside Stadium.

It was a fourth loss of the campaign for Jose Gomes' side who slipped down a place to 17th in the Championship table.

But Morrison believes there are good times ahead and the recent defeats at Charlton and now Boro will be quickly put to oneside.

"I don't think you can argue with the performance," said Morrison on Teesside. "It could have gone either way but they got the goal and even before they scored we had chances.

"It's just frustrating not to have got the goals. Their goalkeeper has got the man of the match and that happened against Charlton [in the previous match] as well so hopefully we can start hitting the back of the net again soon.

"We are creating chances, we look like a dangerous side going forward and we have lots of quality.

"I think we will be fine, 100 per cent. It's whether we can achieve what we want."

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Although there were plenty of positives from the display for Reading, the likes of Yakou Meite, John Swift, Lucas Boye and Lucas Joao will all feel they should have done better after being frustrated in front of goal.

And while rueing those missed chances, Morrison admitted there were a number of preventable errors in the build-up to Johnson's strike for Boro which came directly from a free-kick out wide.

"Everyone was disappointed," he said. "We've come away from home and played well but not got the rewards and that's the frustrating thing.

"You want to get the points you deserve and I think we deserved at least one.

"We gave away the ball cheaply up front for their goal and then I gave the free-kick away and we haven't dealt with it properly. We maybe could have been more organised at the front post.

"They've seen the opportunity to have a shot so it's disappointing there were a few small mistakes which led to the goal.

"We worked so hard to win the game so it's disappointing we didn't put our chances away and it's a slippy goal which has cost us."